Conference Overview
The World’s Premier Conference for 3D Innovation
The Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference (SD&A) focuses on developments covering the entire stereoscopic 3D imaging pipeline from capture to 3D display, to processing and perception. The conference brings together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia to facilitate an exchange of current information on stereoscopic imaging topics. The highly-popular conference demonstration session provides authors with a perfect additional opportunity to showcase their work. Publishing your work at SD&A offers excellent exposure—across all publication series. SD&A has the highest proportion of papers in the top 100 cited papers in the stereoscopic imaging field (Google Scholar, April 2024).
2025 Conference Topics
Applications of stereoscopic displays
- Especially novel applications and user trials of existing applications. Application areas include: games, scientific visualization, medical imaging, television, entertainment, communications, training, immersive analytics, molecular modeling, teleoperation, telepresence, virtual reality, augmented reality, extended reality, industrial inspection, advertising, stereoscopic visualization for 3D reconstruction and 3D printing, as well as art and design-related applications
Advances in true 3D display technologies
- Including autostereoscopic displays, high-density multi-view displays, volumetric displays, light-field displays, head-mounted displays, spatial computing, ‘spatially-multiplexed’ displays (e.g. lenticular, barrier, integral imaging), ‘temporally-multiplexed’ displays (e.g. active shutter, view-scanning), multi-projector displays, mobile 3D displays, 3D tablets, stereoscopic projection, and electro-holography
Stereoscopic systems design
- For VR, AR, and MR systems, teleoperation,
telerobotics, telesurgery, head mounted displays, mobile devices, game
systems, consumer and professional broadcast, content delivery and
interaction technologies
- System performance, crosstalk, brightness, viewing freedom
Stereoscopic 3D digital cinema
- Including production, post-production, presentation, and case studies
Stereoscopic imaging
- Image processing and compression of stereoscopic imagery
- 3D image quality, image alignment and depth range analysis
- Stereoscopic and multi-view computer graphics, including gaming
- Stereoscopic image synthesis: 2D to 3D conversion, depth map generation, multi-viewpoint generation
- Software and hardware issues for computer display of stereoscopic images
- Methods for recording, playback, transmission, and processing of stereoscopic video
3D image acquisition and generation aspects
- Single- and multi-lens camera systems, light-field cameras
- Motion parallax, volume projection, graphical construction, computer graphics, computational photography, and other stereoscopic image generation techniques
- Generation of novel viewpoints, light-field rendering
- Guidelines for stereoscopic content development
Human factors and user-interface issues
- Task performance comparisons between 3D and 2D displays
- Evaluation methodologies, including depth-acuity measurement and task performance
- Perceptual and cognitive guidelines
- Ortho-stereo, hyper-stereo, and the geometry of 3D perceptual space
2025 Special Sessions
The conference organizes special sessions that track the latest changes in the stereoscopic imaging landscape. If you have an idea for a special session or hot topic, please get in touch.
Awards
Past winners — Best Use of 3D in a Presentation:
2025 Committee
Conference Chairs
Nicolas Holliman, King's College London (United Kingdom)
Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
Bjorn Sommer, Royal College of Art (United Kingdom)
Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
Program Committee
Justus Ilgner, RWTH University Hospital Aachen (Germany)
Eric Kurland, 3-D SPACE Museum (US)
Eleanor O'Keefe, KBR (US)
Nicholas Routhier, CubicSpace Technologies, Inc. (Cana,da)
John Stern, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (retired) (United States)
Chris Ward, Lightspeed Design, Inc. (US)
Laurie Wilcox, York University (Canada)